It just occurred to me, we moved here 20 years ago. 20 years, and I’m back right in the same house where I started when we got here, and frankly, feeling about the same way I did then, too, aka “WTF do I do now??” To be honest, I can’t decide if I am surprised or disappointed at the fact that I never left the area.
I didn’t get enough sleep last night.
To the asshat in BMW turning onto my street this morning - sorry I slowed you down by actually forcing you to STOP at the stop sign you so wanted to go blowing through, but I was already in the intersection you putz.
Oh, to the client that was pissy because I repeated myself FOUR times - had you actually taken two seconds to listen the first three times, I wouldn’t have had to keep repeating it.
The coworker to my left is on the verge of a total meltdown. I don’t even begin to know what to do about that to help her - she’s totally freaked out all the time cause she doesn’t know everything yet, and it’s hard to convince her that she’ll do better and absorb more if she just relaxes a bit, and she doesn’t have to know everything yet - but cause she’s in a panic, she’s not picking up anything at all. She’s also locking horns with the manager, and that’s not helping.
I got home to a message from my boss asking if I would go on 10-7 the next two days due to some scheduling cockups. At least that’s what I think the message was, the answering machine is quite the piece of junk and really needs to be replaced. I left her a voice mail on her cell saying I’d see her at 10.
Rain… Yep, we need it, but it hosed the drive home, which I was an hour late starting anyway. Trying to explain to the dog that we’re not going out as I am just not tough enough for outside exercise in the rain just isn’t working.
The lawn folks accidentally left the side gate unlatched yesterday. Found this out when I called the dog and he came to the door in the carport - apparently he was waiting at the other gate to get back in the yard. Oh you can bet he got TONS of praise for not running off. I know it had to be tempting to go wandering.
Couple things on my mind I just can’t shake that are starting to get to the point of being a distraction, and I simply cannot figure out what to do about it, short of bashing myself in the head with a stapler and hoping for selective amnesia.
However, there was a bright spot to the day - I got a coupon for a Starbucks freebie cause they lost my order this morning. Totally unnecessary, but really nice. I cashed it in on the way home. :)
QE did a makeover on a nudist this evening. Highly entertaining. And I’ve found a new drink recipe I must try - rum, grapefruit juice and lime juice all thrown into a blender w/ some ice.
Someone was attacked in Rock Creek Park the other day. Apparently police & media are saying that joggers and such should be carrying cell phone with the police number preprogrammed in. Personally, I’m thinking brass knuckles might be slightly more useful, then call the police after you’ve bashed an attacker in the face and run the hell away. Seriously though, yeah, it bites to have to think about this kind of crap wherever you are if you’re not in a position where you’ve got an exercise partner that sucks as badly as you do to go and workout with. Yeah, I could just pony up the money for the gym now, but I really do like to get outside if possible to exercise.
Note to self: I’d best come up with a different activity for my 47th birthday…
